Set your identity

This section will guide you through the process of attaching real-world information to your Uomi account.

When you are a validator, you care for your credibility and recognizability as seen by potential nominators. One way of ensuring the trustworthiness of your account is attaching some real-world information to your account, including the display name, email, website, etc.

Set basic information

Go on the polkadot.js app, connect your validator wallet (created as first step in Spin up a validator).

Go to Developer > extrinsics.

Select your validator account and identity > setIdentity as extrinsic type

The default info are:

Name	data
Display	Name displayed on-chain when validating blocks
Legal	Legal name
Web	Website
Riot	Element username
Email	E-mail address
Image	Validator image
Twitter	Twitter link/username

You don't need to fill up everything, just leave as "None" whatever you don't want to share.

When you chose something to add, click "None" and select "Raw", write the information

Then click sign Sumbit transaction and send

Custom information

By clicking "Add new item" you can add custom information (up to 100 custom information), filling up firstly the name, then the data